Classic Literature

I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors…

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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this…

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife…

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that…

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house…

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em…

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do…

Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end…